EP0355981A2 - Procédé de production de l'endonucléase de restriction et de la méthylase Nla IV - Google Patents

Procédé de production de l'endonucléase de restriction et de la méthylase Nla IV Download PDF

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EP0355981A2
EP0355981A2 EP89307206A EP89307206A EP0355981A2 EP 0355981 A2 EP0355981 A2 EP 0355981A2 EP 89307206 A EP89307206 A EP 89307206A EP 89307206 A EP89307206 A EP 89307206A EP 0355981 A2 EP0355981 A2 EP 0355981A2
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  • the present invention relates to clones for the NlaIV restriction endonuclease and modification methylase, and to the production of these enzymes from the clones.
  • Restriction endonucleases are a class of enzymes that occur naturally in bacteria. When they are purified away from other contaminating bacterial components, zestriction endonucleases can be used in the laboratory to break DNA molecules into precise fragments. This property enables DNA molecules to be uniquely identified and to be fractionated into their constituent genes. Restriction endonucleases have proved to be indispensable tools in modern genetic research. They are the biochemical 'scissors' by means of which genetic engineering and analysis is performed.
  • Restriction endonucleases act by recognizing and binding to particular sequences of nucleotides (the 'recognition sequence') along the DNA molecule. Once bound, they cleave the molecule within, or to one side of, the sequence. Different restriction endonucleases have affinity for different recognition sequences. Over one hundred different restriction endonucleases have been identified among many hundreds of bacterial species that have been examined to date.
  • Bacteria usually possess only a small number of restriction endonucleases per species.
  • the endonucleases are named according to the bacteria from which they are derived.
  • the species Haemophilus aegyptius for example synthesizes 3 different restriction endonucleases, named HaeI, HaeII and HaeIII.
  • These enzymes recognize and cleave the sequences (AT)GGCC(AT), PuGCGCPy and GGCC respectively.
  • Escherichia coli RY13 synthesizes only one enzyme, EcoRI, which recognizes the sequence GAATTC.
  • restriction endonucleases play a protective role in the welfare of the bacterial cell. They enable bacteria to resist infection by foreign DNA molecules like viruses and plasmids that would otherwise destroy or parasitize them. They impart resistance by binding to infecting DNA molecule and cleaving them in each place that the recognition sequence occurs. The disintegration that results inactivates many of the infecting genes and renders the DNA susceptible to further degradation by exonucleases.
  • a second component of bacterial protective systems are the modification methylases. These enzymes are complementary to restriction endonucleases and they provide the means by which bacteria are able to protect their own DNA and distinguish it from foreign, infecting DNA. Modification methylases recognize and bind to the same nucleotide recognition sequence as the corresponding restriction endonuclease, but instead of breaking the DNA, they chemically modify one or other of the nucleotides within the sequence by the addition of a methyl group. Following methylation, the recognition sequence is no longer bound or cleaved by the restriction endonuclease.
  • the DNA of a bacterial cell is always fully modified, by virtue of the activity of its modification methylase and it is therefore completely insensitive to the presence of the endogenous restriction endonuclease. It is only unmodified, and therefore identifiably foreign, DNA that is sensitive to restriction endonuclease recognition and attack.
  • the key to isolating clones of restriction endonuclease genes is to develop a simple and reliable method to identify such clones within complex 'libraries', i.e. populations of clones derived by 'shotgun' procedures, when they occur at frequencies as low as 10 ⁇ 3 to 10 ⁇ 4.
  • the method should be selective, such that the unwanted, majority, of clones are destroyed while the desirable, rare, clones survive.
  • Type II restriction-modification systems are being cloned with increasing frequency.
  • the first cloned systems used bacteriophage infection as a means of identifying or selecting restriction endonuclease clones (HhaII: Mann et al ., Gene 3: 97-112, (1978); EcoRII: Kosykh et al ., Molec. gen. Genet 178: 717-719, (1980); PstI: Walder et al ., Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 78 1503-­1507, (1981)).
  • a third approach and one that is being used to clone a growing number of systems, involves selecting for an active methylase gene; see for example U.S. Patent application Ser. No. 707079, (equivalent to EP 0193413A).
  • a potential obstacle to cloning restriction-­modification genes lies in trying to introduce the endonuclease gene into a host not already protected by modification. If the methylase gene and endonuclease gene are introduced together as a single clone, the methylase must protectively modify the host DNA before the endonuclease has the opportunity to cleave it. On occasion, therefore, it might only be possible to clone the genes sequentially, methylase first then endonuclease. Another obstacle to cloning.
  • restriction-­ modification systems lies in the discovery that some strains of E.coli react adversely to cytosine modification; they possess systems that destroy DNA containing methylated cytosine (Raleigh and Wilson, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA 83:9070-9074, (1986)). Cytosine-­specific methylase genes cannot be cloned easily into these strains, either on their own, or together with their corresponding endonuclease genes. To avoid this problem it is necessary to use mutant strains of E.coli (McrA ⁇ and McrB ⁇ ) in which these systems are defective.
  • the present invention relates to the type II restriction endonuclease NlaIV, which is obtainable from Neisseria lactamica .
  • NlaIV recognizes the DNA sequence 5′ GGNNCC 3′ and cleaves in the middle of the sequence between the two non-specified nucleotides to produce blunt ends; GGN/NCC (Qiang and Schildkraut, Nucleic Acids Res . 14: 1991-1999, (1986), the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference herein).
  • the preferred method for cloning this enzyme comprises forming a library containing the DNA from N. lactamica (NRCC 2118), isolating those clones which contain DNA coding for the NlaIV modification methylase and screening among these to identify those that also contain the NlaIV restriction endonuclease gene.
  • the present invention relates to clones of the NlaIV restriction and modification genes, as well to the restriction endonuclease NlaIV produced from such clones.
  • the NlaIV genes are cloned by a method which takes advantage of the fact that certain clones which are selected on the basis of containing and expressing the NlaIV modification methylase gene also contain the NlaIV restriction gene.
  • the DNA of such clones is resistant to digestion, in vitro , by the NlaIV restriction endonuclease. This resistance to digestion affords a means for selectively isolating clones encoding the NlaIV methylase and restriction endonuclease.

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